Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fictional Experience

ISBN-13: 9781108837163 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 230 str.

Timothy (University of Sydney) Gao

Opis

Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel proposes a literary history of virtual reality, analysing imaginary worlds created by nineteenth-century novelists.

Recenzje

'Hubbell's scholarship, at once deeply personal and universal, will interest students and researchers in memory and postcolonial studies, history, and migration studies, also triggering introspection in anyone with a family experience of uprootedness and migration, whether forced or not.' Temenuga Trifonova, EuropeNow Journal

Spis treści

Introduction. How to Play the Victorian Novel; Chapter Overview; 1. Virtual, Paracosmic, Fictional; 2. Authorship, Omnipotence, and Charlotte Brontë; 3. Plotting, Improvisation, and Anthony Trollope; 4. Continuation, Attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray; 5. Description, Projection, and Charles Dickens; Conclusion. Approaching Virtuality.